{"id":358,"date":"2015-04-21T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/masterybusiness1xngcxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=358"},"modified":"2015-07-11T23:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T23:13:58","slug":"types-of-corporations","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/chapter\/types-of-corporations\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Types of Corporations","rendered":"Outcome: Types of Corporations"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0differentiate among the different types of corporations available to business owners (C, S, B)<\/h2>\r\nWhen you hear the word <em>corporation<\/em>,\u00a0what comes to mind? General Motors, Dell, Apple, Nike, WalMart? All of these organizations are in fact corporations, but not all corporations are big businesses, and in fact, not all of them even exist as \"for-profit\" companies. \u00a0In this section we will examine three of the most common types of corporations: C Corps, the most common but most complex; S Corps, a small corporation with fewer than one hundred\u00a0shareholders, and the B Corp or Benefit Corporation, a new form of corporation that allows owners to benefit both society and their shareholders.\r\n<h3>LEARNING ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\r\nThe learning activities for this section include:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Reading: Corporations<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Reading: Hybrid Forms of Organization<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Self Check: Types of Corporations<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nTake time to review and reflect on this activity\u00a0in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0differentiate among the different types of corporations available to business owners (C, S, B)<\/h2>\n<p>When you hear the word <em>corporation<\/em>,\u00a0what comes to mind? 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All of these organizations are in fact corporations, but not all corporations are big businesses, and in fact, not all of them even exist as &#8220;for-profit&#8221; companies. \u00a0In this section we will examine three of the most common types of corporations: C Corps, the most common but most complex; S Corps, a small corporation with fewer than one hundred\u00a0shareholders, and the B Corp or Benefit Corporation, a new form of corporation that allows owners to benefit both society and their shareholders.<\/p>\n<h3>LEARNING ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\n<p>The learning activities for this section include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading: Corporations<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Hybrid Forms of Organization<\/li>\n<li>Self Check: Types of Corporations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take time to review and reflect on this activity\u00a0in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-358\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Linda Williams and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":78,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Linda Williams and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"1411e959-b0c0-4495-8320-29aa141aa766","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-358","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":86,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/358\/revisions\/5074"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/86"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/358\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/clinton-introbusinesswmopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}